Will medications that mimic gut hormones or target their receptors eventually replace bariatric surgery?
Abstract
Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective therapeutic modality through which sustained beneficial effects on weight loss and metabolic improvement are achieved. During recent years, indications for bariatric surgery have been expanded to include cases of poorly controlled type 2 (T2DM) diabetes mellitus in lesser extremes of body weight. A spectrum of the beneficial effects of surgery is attributed to robust changes of postprandial gut...
Paper Details
Title
Will medications that mimic gut hormones or target their receptors eventually replace bariatric surgery?
Published Date
Nov 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
100
Pages
153960 - 153960
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